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Giancarlo Caselli: Sciascia and the Palermo anti-Mafia pool

(15 11 2010) Judith Harris

In the article "The Anti-Mafia Professionals", appeared on the national daily Il Corriere della Sera, Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia attacked Borsellino when he requested a...

Games, Media, and Politics. Does "Mafia II" Defame Italian Americans? Interview with Andre' DiMino

(28 08 2010) Ottorino Cappelli

Several Italian-American organizations are staging an anti-defamation campaign against the videogame "Mafia II" on the ground that it offends, discriminates, and stereotypes...

Falcone and Borsellino Die Again

(19 07 2010) Judith Harris

On July 18, the day before the l8th anniversary of the murder of Judge Paolo Borsellino, the statues commemorating him and another emblematic victim of the Sicilian Mafia, Judge...

Panto Remembered

(17 07 2010) Joseph Sciorra

A new book about the New York City waterfront recalls the Italian-American fight against organized crime.

Mafia, Kinds of Applause & Saviano's Quotes

(29 04 2010) Judith Harris

A confusion of applause: ovation at Perugia for Italy’s heroic Roberto Saviano and hurrahs at Reggio for arrested ’Ndrangheta boss Giovanni Tegano

Move over, Tony Soprano—you’ve had it

(25 03 2010) Judith Harris

The era of the Corleonesi is definitely at an end. We are witnessing the mutation of the Mafia strategy into one that is clearly based on finance. (Antonio Ingroia, Prosecutor)

An American with an Italian name; hindrance or advantage?

(06 03 2010) Darrell Fusaro

Most Italian-Italians, the ones from Italy, that is, always seem to be curious as to how we Italian-Americans are perceived by others in America. With all the news they’ve...

Fear and (Self-)Loathing in Italian America

(03 02 2010) Joseph Sciorra

The Specter of the Gavon Haunts the Prominenti.

While Calabria Burns

(11 01 2010) Judith Harris

“I came here to find Heaven. I found Hell”

Leonardo Sciascia’s Mafia

(11 12 2009) Judith Harris

Predictably, rhetoric marked the twentieth anniversary of the death of Leonardo Sciascia on November 20. But rhetoric was the opposite of Sciascia. If anything, the Sicilian...

Supergrass Gaspare Spatuzza links Italy's Premier Silvio Berlusconi to the Mafia

(07 12 2009) Judith Harris

A heated weekend unfolds in Italy while media and politicians discuss new "revelations" about the relationship between Mafia and politics.

The Film Festival of Positive Italian-American Images

(29 11 2009) Joseph Sciorra

Positive images of Italian-Americans that aren’t.

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